Morning everyone. I'm Martin Farrer and here are the top stories to start the week.
Three men have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws after a taxi explosion outside Liverpool Women's hospital that killed the passenger. The men - aged 29, 26 and 21 - were detained in the Kensington area of the city and arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said. In the early hours, a street in the city's Sefton Park area was cordoned off by armed police and some residents evacuated as part of "ongoing enquiries". The explosion, which happened shortly before 11am when the Remembrance Sunday silence was due to begin, engulfed the taxi in a fireball. The driver, who managed to escape with minor injuries before the flames spread, is not one of the people arrested. The dead man has not been named.
The focus of the police investigation is on whether the blast - partially captured on this video - was caused deliberately and whether there is significance in the location. The inquiry is being led by counter-terrorism police who are being assisted by MI5. Here's everything we know so far about the incident.
Climate deal - India and China will "have to explain themselves to poor nations", warned the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, after the two Asian countries succeeded in watering down the Glasgow climate pact. Sharma was almost reduced to tears by the last-minute change of wording which committed the world to "phasing down" rather than "phasing out" the use of coal. He said he was "deeply frustrated" but the final agreement was still better than losing the whole deal. Boris Johnson said that even with the weaker wording, the agreement thrashed out over two weeks in Glasgow "sounded the death knell" for coal. Some analysts stressed that it was unfair to single out India as the villain because it cannot phase out coal at the same pace as more developed economies. Pacific countries said the summit was a "monumental failure" that left their island nations in peril. Our environment correspondent looks at how the deal was nearly lost, but why there is still hope for change.
Ambulance alarm - Delays outside hospital A&E departments are causing fatalities and up to 160,000 more people a year are coming to harm because they are stuck outside hospitals unable to be offloaded, a report has revealed. Patients are also dying soon after finally getting admitted to hospital after spending long periods in the back of an ambulance, while others still in their own homes are not being saved because paramedics are trapped at A&E and unable to answer 999 calls. Nursing leaders meanwhile have highlighted 10 pressures on health and social care services which they say have created "unsustainable, untenable" conditions.
Vaccine hope - A UK company has developed an easy-to-use, skin-patch Covid vaccine that could offer longer-lasting immunity than current treatments. The Emergex vaccine will soon start trials and uses T-cells to remove infected cells from the body quickly after infection, thus preventing viral replication and disease. While the antibodies produced by the current Covid vaccines stick to the virus and stop it infecting cells, T-cells find and destroy infected cells.
Tampon protest - An environmental activist is stepping up her campaign against single-use plastics in period products by calling on the world's bestselling manufacturer of tampons to make greener alternatives. Ella Daish will present Procter & Gamble bosses with a giant tampon applicator, made of 1,200 discarded Tampax applicators found littering British waterways, rivers and beaches. "I wanted to create something that you can't ignore," she said.
'Walking through concrete' - Adele has opened up to Oprah Winfrey on divorce, losing weight and how much she can deadlift, as well as explaining the meaning of new songs on her eagerly awaited album, 30, which is set for release on Friday. Quizzed on some of the "dark" lyrics, the British star says she has struggled in the aftermath of her divorce from charity chief Simon Konecki while maintaining her stellar career and looking after her nine-year-old son. "I juggled those things as well. And I felt like not doing it any more. It made my feet hurt, walking through all that concrete."
We analyse how the global climate deal reached in Glasgow makes some progress but goes nowhere near far enough to avert devastating global heating.
James Graham, the playwright whose hits include Quiz, Ink and Brexit: The Uncivil War, has turned his attention to the febrile politics of 60s America for his new project. Graham explains what made him write Best of Enemies, which is about the TV debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr in August 1968, why he's loving being back in theatre and whether he was too soft on Dominic Cummings.
Against the odds and defying the numbers, Lewis Hamilton won the Brazilian Grand Prix, storming to victory from 10th on the grid to cut Max Verstappen's title race lead to 14 points. Serbia clinched an automatic berth at the 2022 World Cup after a 90th-minute header by the half-time substitute Aleksandar Mitrovic gave them a comeback 2-1 win over Portugal. Álvaro Morata scored the only goal of the game against Sweden in Seville to ensure Spain finished top of Group B and qualified for Qatar. After Australia completed a remarkable comeback to win their first T20 World Cup, Aaron Finch insisted that even at their lowest ebb he never saw his side as anything other than champions in waiting.
England rugby union coach Eddie Jones wants his team to deliver a statement victory over South Africa in their grudge match this week. England's footballers plan to discuss how to express their concerns about human rights in Qatar once they have qualified for the 2022 World Cup. The WTA Tour has called on the Chinese government to investigate allegations of sexual assault made by Peng Shuai against a former Chinese vice-premier while also demanding an end to censorship of the former top-ranked doubles player. Roger Federer will almost certainly miss the Australian Open for the second year in a row, with the Swiss maestro said to be recovering slowly from a third round of knee surgery in 18 months. And the Essex chief executive, John Stephenson, is "extremely shocked and saddened" by allegations the club's former batter Zoheb Sharif received racist abuse that included being called "bomber" by his teammates after the September 11 attacks.
Weak EU vehicle emissions targets could allow Europe's biggest carmakers to produce millions more petrol and diesel cars than necessary up to 2030 in a "wasted decade" for cutting carbon pollution. And more than 300,000 workers in the UK will get a pay rise from today as the charity behind the voluntary real living wage raises the minimum hourly rate by 40p to £9.90. The FTSE100 will open down around 0.1% this morning while the pound is on $1.343 and ?1.172.
The explosion in Liverpool makes a dramatic lead for many titles today. The Mirror says "Terror probe after taxi blast" and the Times has a very similar "Three held by terror police after fatal blast". The Mail links the explosion to Remembrance Day with "Poppy day 'bomb' rocks maternity hospital", as does the Express - "Terror probe into poppy day blast" - and the Telegraph: "Remembrance 'terror plot': three held after fatal explosion". The Sun says "Hospital terror blast hero". The Guardian goes with "Frustration at India and China over watering down climate deal" and the FT has "Business groups add to chorus of dismay at watered down Cop deal". The i splash is "Rail plans scaled down in blow for 'levelling up'".
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